VENTURA, California (Sunday, April 26, 2009) – Two-time and defending Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) North America Longboard Qualifying Series (LQS) Champion Taylor Jensen (Oceanside, CA), 25, and Kaitlin Maguire (Del Mar, CA), 21, won the ASP LQS 1-Star PLA and Gidget PLA Pros today in peaky two-to-three foot (1 metre) surf at C Street [...]
VENTURA, California (Monday, April 20, 2009) – The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Longboard Qualifying Series (LQS) is set to host the second of five ASP LQS 1-Star events in North America this weekend with the men’s PLA and women’s Gidget PLA Pro events from April 25-26, 2009 at Ventura Pier. The ASP LQS acts [...]
TAPIA DE CASARIEGO, Spain (Saturday, April 11, 2009) – The first and crucial event of the ASP European Longboard Tour came to an end today, British surfers Ben Skinner (GBR) and Candice O’Donnell (GBR) dominating the LQS 1-Star Goanna Pro Tapia in consistent wind-blown five foot waves. Both event winners and runner-ups have secured their [...]
TAPIA DE CASARIEGO, Spain (Friday, April 10, 2009) – It was a day of domination for all Goanna Pro Tapia event top seeds as the expected four leaders confirmed their strong start by winning their Quarterfinal match-ups for a spot into the Semifinals of the ASP Longboard Qualifying Series (LQS) 1-Star event. With consistent four [...]
TAPIA DE CASARIEGO, Spain (Thursday, April 9, 2009) – The Goanna Pro Tapia, an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Longboard Qualifying Series (LQS) 1-Star event, got underway today in Tapia, Spain, in four foot (1.2 meter) waves, the eight man-on-man battles of Round 1 bringing an impressive show of classic and progressive longboarding. Being the [...]
KINGSCLIFF, Australia (Sunday, March 29, 2009) – Dane Pioli (Rainbow Bay), 25, made surfing history at this year’s Hyundai Malfunction Surfing Festival by winning his third consecutive SurfTech LQS Men’s Final in one of the most exciting finals ever held at the Malfunction. Pioli came from behind like he did last year. The come-back kid [...]
KINGSCLIFF, Australia (Saturday, March 28, 2009) – Challenging surfing conditions continued at Kingscliff for Day 4 of the Hyundai Malfunction with the business end of the professional SurfTech men’s and women’s doing battle in the 1–2 metre stormy Easterly swell, strong sweeps and stiff SSE winds providing plenty of action for the Worlds best Longboarders. [...]
NOOSA HEADS, Australia (Saturday, March 21, 2009) – With perfect 1.25 metre surf pouring through the idyllic pointbreaks at Noosa Heads today, USA surfer Taylor Jensen (San Diego) and Australia’s Chelsea Williams (Tweed Heads/NSW) won high-scoring finals of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Longboard Qualifying Series (LQS) events, the Golden Breed Pro and [...]
NOOSA HEADS, Australia (Tuesday, March 17, 2009) – Finalists have been decided for the ASP Professional Men’s and Women’s divisions at the GSI Noosa Festival of Surfing for 2009, and while they were expected to have announced the winners today, conditions became so small that organizers decided to hold off until later in the week [...]
NOOSA HEADS, Australia (Monday, March 16, 2009) – Top seeds dominated the ASP Pro divisions at the GSI Noosa Festival of Surfing today with French surfer Antoine Delpero and Australia’s Chelsea Williams both comfortably advancing to tomorrows Quarterfinals Delpero won his Round 3 heat of the Golden Breed Men’s Pro displaying his smooth style through [...]
